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Originally Posted by oldE

A day best forgotten. My 90 yo MIL is living in an old farm house with a stone foundation. There is about four and a half feet of headroom down there. After we lost our snow cover, we had another cold snap and the wind was blowing between the stones enough that the pressure switch on her water pump froze. After a few minutes work with a heat gun, I went into town for a couple of cans of expanding spray foam. My attempts to reduce the drafts fell short so in a last ditch I-don't-want-to-spend-any-more-time-in-this-cellar, I went home and built a box with a thermostatically controlled incandescent light bulb inside and installed it over the pump.
A glass of scotch was my well earned reward.
No more freeze ups!
Best
Les

At least it sounds like it was a satisfyingly productive day.